begin Ryan <ryan@mother.com>
> On Sunday 12 May 2002 02:24 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > discovery #136:
> >
> > it is possible to accidentally touch the insides of a power supply,
> > before rectification and regulation, and live.
> >
> > however, i don't recommend it; cheap thrills are better obtained through
> > the binary usenet newsgroups...
>
> Ouch, did you get burned?
no. it's hard to describe the sensation. it's like your brain goes
back and forth quickly. there were two sensations:
1- a moving back and forth sensation (but i don't think it was physical.
i think it was just in mind).
2- a panic upon realizing what i just must have done. sort of a "danger
wil robinson" kind of thing. the "danger" thought happened much
quicker than the thought "pull my hand away".
for a few minutes afterward, i felt like i was on a caffeine high. an
unpleasant one though.
> Just remember the one hand rule;
>
> "When working with high powered circuits keep one hand in your pocket"
>
> The idea being that this prevents a path accross your chest. You'll also want
> not to have your body grounded........
yeah, i know. even though lucifer isn't my main system, it's my gaming
computer. it's also the big-bruiser machine i run my simulations on
when i need for them to finish in a short amount of time. basically,
it's my work and play computer. there's kind of a panic that sets in
when your computer is down. i was working way too fast.
btw, i was going to buy a new power supply from fry's. 80 bucks for a
400W amd approved supply. the woman at the hard drive/CPU section
told me there was a case that was being cleared out. it included a 425W
amd approved power supply. only 32 bucks. go figure.
the downside is that i just discovered there's one less power cable than
my last supply. so i'm going to be without my jaz drive until i get
splitter.
p
ps- i just bought fallout/fallout 2 at frys. both games combined for
$9.95. fallout works __wonderfully__ under winex. perfectly. it's
amazing. for some reason i had it in my head that fallout was a fps.
it's not. it's a modern RPG that borders on being a strategy game.
very similar to jagged alliance 2 which was ported to linux by tribsoft
(and who is no longer porting games for linux).
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